How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
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Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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